Handle.



- No. 690,622; Patented Jan. 7, I902.

E. SEYBOLD & c. E. moumronn.

I HANDLE.

(Application filed June 22, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD SEYBOLD AND CLARENCE ERNEST MOUNTFORD, OF OTTAYVA, CANADA,ASSIGNOBS TO THE ECLIPSE OFFICE FURNITURE COMPANY OF OTTAWA, LIMITED, OFOTTAWA, CANADA, A CORPORATION.

HANDL E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,622, dated January7, 1902.

Application filed June 22, 1901. Serial No. 65,638. (No model.)

, T0 aZZ whom it may concern: T

Be it known that we, EDWARD SEYBOLD, manufacturer, and CLARENCE ERNESTMOUNTFORD, machinist, of the city of Ottawa, Province of Ontario,Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles;and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

This invention relates particularly to handles for shovels, pitchforks,or, in fact, in any connection where a strong and light handle isrequired; and the object of the invention is to enable a handle of thistype to be made from sheet metal and hollow.

The invention, broadly speaking, may be said to consist in forming themetal portion of a handle hollow to impart rigidity and lightness and ofsheet metal formed to present the required shape.

More specifically speaking, the invention may be said briefly to consistin producing a blank of sheet metal and forming from said blank bysuitably bending same a hollow metallic forked frame in one piece andadapted to receive between its prongs and have connected thereto across-piece, thus constituting what is known in the trade as a D-handle.For full comprehension, however, of our invention reference must be hadto the accompanying drawings, wherein like symbols indicate the sameparts, and in which 7 Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvedblank. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the blank after the first bendingoperation. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the blank after the secondbending operation. Fig. 4 is a similar View of the blank after the thirdbending operation, the forked frame being completed and ready to receivethe cross-piece; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the completehandle.

In constructing a handle-frame according to this invention the blank I)is struck from sheet metal in any well-known and preferred manner and ofthe shape of a cross, with its cross-arm crossing its longitudinal armabout midway of the length of the latter. (See Fig.

operation first formed to have the side edges 0 of its longitudinal armdextend at approxi mately right angles thereto and with the ends of itscross-arm concave and each extending at an angle to the same side of thelongitudinal arm 01 as that from which the sides 0 extend. (See Fig. 2.)The second forming operation downwardly curves the ends of the 1011-gitudinal arm dand sim ultaneously causes the concave ends e of thecross-arm to extend at approximately right angles to the middle portionof the longitudinal arm. (See Fig. The final forming operation causesthe edges 0 to meet and abut against one another and the side edges ofthe ends e of the cross-arm to do the same and a bead f to be formed atthe lower end of the shank-socket constituted by said ends e, the endsof the longitudinal arm d being punched, as at 9. (See Fig. 4.)- TheD-handle is then completed, preferably by mounting a metallic tubularlength h upon a spindlet' and rigidly securing the ends of said spindlein the perforations g of the handleframe, while the socket may besecured bya pin or screw to the shank m of a shovel, pitchfork, draw-rodof any kind, or the like necessary to be manually operated.

We have illustrated and fully described what we consider the preferredmethod of forming our improved handle in order that our invention may bethoroughly understood; but our improved handle may, if desired, be madefrom more than one piece of sheet metal ora wooden cross-piece insteadof the metallic tubular length h used and other changes made Within thespirit of our invention.

What we claim is as follows:

1. A D-handle frame consisting of a single piece of sheet metal bent inthe form of afork with hollow prongs and the shank whereof consists oftwo resilient semicircular portions detached from and abutting againstone another, substantially as described-and for the purpose set forth.

2. A D-handle frame consisting of a single piece of sheet metal bent inthe form of a fork the shank whereof consists of two resilientsemicircular portions detached from and abutting against one another andhaving an outwardly-projecting bead encircling said.

shank at the end thereof, substantially as described and for the purposeset forth.

3. A D-handle frame consisting of a single piece of sheet metal bent inthe form of a fork the ends whereof consist of said single piece ofsheet metal bent upon itself, the shank of said fork consisting of tworesilient semicircular portions detached from and abutting against oneanother, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

4:. A D-handle frame consisting of a single piece of sheet metal bent inthe form of afork the ends whereof consist of said single piece

